Polio Drops: Pak, Afghan officials discuss vaccination
The available teams can cover around 600 children per day which means we miss almost 300 children daily
QUETTA:
Officials of Pakistan and Afghanistan responsible for polio vaccination met in Chaman town to discuss inoculation of children at the Pak-Afghan border crossing of the Friendship Gate. A delegation led by Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) Balochistan Dr Syed Saifur Rehman met Afghan Public Health Ministry official Azullah Kakar to review the strategy for border areas during the anti-polio drive. The meeting was informed that over 14,000 people cross the Friendship Gate daily with an average of 900 children below the age of 5 years. “The available teams can cover around 600 children per day which means we miss almost 300 children daily,” a vaccination official said. Commissioner Quetta Kambar Dashti, DC Killa Abdullah Khudae Dad, N-Stop Officer Dr Aftab Kakar, Afghan officials Dr Mohammed Essa and Dr Sadaat and UNICEF and WHOs team heads attended the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2015.
Officials of Pakistan and Afghanistan responsible for polio vaccination met in Chaman town to discuss inoculation of children at the Pak-Afghan border crossing of the Friendship Gate. A delegation led by Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) Balochistan Dr Syed Saifur Rehman met Afghan Public Health Ministry official Azullah Kakar to review the strategy for border areas during the anti-polio drive. The meeting was informed that over 14,000 people cross the Friendship Gate daily with an average of 900 children below the age of 5 years. “The available teams can cover around 600 children per day which means we miss almost 300 children daily,” a vaccination official said. Commissioner Quetta Kambar Dashti, DC Killa Abdullah Khudae Dad, N-Stop Officer Dr Aftab Kakar, Afghan officials Dr Mohammed Essa and Dr Sadaat and UNICEF and WHOs team heads attended the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2015.